This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government
Rejected petition Roads by schools should be gritted in cold weather conditions.
On Mon 12th Feb 2018 myself and my friend were hit by a car outside our children’s school. This is because the road outside school wasn’t gritted. Thankfully we had taken our children into school only 5-10 minutes earlier.
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If the roads outside school were gritted this accident would never had happened. Our school have put together a petition to our local council for the road to be gritted but Salford council have refused saying there had only been one incident.
If this incident had happened 10 minutes earlier that could have been my children or my friends granddaughter. That doesn’t bare thinking about.
It then dawned on me that could happen outside other schools?? Why aren’t roads outside schools gritted?? What has to happen for this to become a done thing??? Does a child have to be killed because the council can’t stretch to some extra grit?
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
At the moment, decisions about gritting roads are the responsibility of local councils.
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